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Free Video: 300-Level Guide to Career Internals: Planning Your Career

Last Updated June 17, 2021

Erika applies a mask to me at the Blue Lagoon Hi. I’m writing this from a cottage in Iceland, in the midst of a 9-month digital nomad stint. I’m teaching classes and doing client work for 1-2 weeks, then Erika and I take off and hit the road for 2-3 weeks at a time, driving…

Free Video: Deadlocks: Let’s Do One, Understand It, and Fix It

Last Updated May 10, 2021

Brent Ozar

Deadlocks, Videos

You keep getting warnings and emails about deadlocks, but let’s be honest: you’re not really sure how they happen or what to do about it. In this one-hour session from the SQLBits conference, I will show one, use sp_BlitzLock to analyze it, then fix it. If you like this video, check out the SQLBits YouTube…

Announcing Fundamentals Week: May 10-14, $295

Last Updated April 27, 2021

Brent Ozar

Company News

You love learning from me. You’ve attended some of my free online streams, read my blog posts, and you use the First Responder Kit. You enjoy my laid-back, humorous approach to sharing what I’ve learned over the years. You love live classes. You’ve tried watching recordings or stepping through demos yourself, but…you just can’t block…

How I Worked Toward GDPR Compliance: The Really Long Story

Last Updated March 12, 2021

Brent Ozar

Company News

BrentOzar.com is 20 years old, so I’m spending 20 days reflecting. Yesterday, I wrote about how my online classes are available to Europeans now, and today I’m going to talk about why that was a problem for a while, and how I solved it. The short story is that I outsourced the whole thing to…

What It Takes To Write Two Blog Posts

Last Updated November 19, 2020

Brent Ozar

Blogging, Videos

This week, I published two blog posts: How Bad Statistics Cause Bad SQL Server Query Performance How Scalar User-Defined Functions Slow Down Queries Let’s talk about the process of writing ’em. A couple I was putting together this week’s First Responder Kit release, I realized sp_BlitzIndex didn’t have URLs for a couple of common families…

The 4 Presentations I’m Proudest Of, and What Inspired Them

Last Updated September 24, 2020

Brent Ozar

Videos, Writing and Presenting

I was thinking back about the presentations I’ve been the most proud of over the years. I’ve written and performed a *lot* of stuff over time, but here are some of the free public presentations I’m the most proud of, and the stories of how they came to be. #4: Watch Brent Tune Queries (2014)…

Upcoming Free Webcast: 500-Level Career Guide: Building Your Brand

Last Updated September 9, 2020

Brent Ozar

Professional Development

At SQLBits 2020 on Saturday, October 3 at 11:10AM Eastern, 8:10AM Pacific (calendar), I’m presenting a session called 500-Level Career Guide: Building Your Brand. Here’s the abstract: If you want to work for yourself, you need to be able to sell yourself. I know, I hate it too – it feels gross when I write…

SQLBits Attendees: Here Are Your Prerequisites for Mastering Index Tuning.

Last Updated September 1, 2020

Brent Ozar

Indexing

Howdy folks. It’s time for SQLBits! This year, I’m teaching a one-day Mastering Index Tuning workshop from 9AM-5PM London time, and you can join in online. Pricing is £300 for the one-day workshop, or £800 for a full conference pass. You can register here. Once you’re registered, here’s what you need to do: Watch my…

European Union Folks: Wanna Attend Mastering Index Tuning?

Last Updated August 10, 2020

Brent Ozar

SQLBits

You need to speed up a SQL Server app, but you only want to make index changes. You don’t want to buy hardware, change SQL Server, or change the code. I’ll teach you the most important advanced lessons in one day. In my one-day Mastering Index Tuning online workshop at SQLbits, you’ll learn: My D.E.A.T.H.…

Bonus: Storytelling Time

Last Updated November 16, 2020

Brent Ozar

During the Fundamentals of Parameter Sniffing class, we went offtopic a few times during the breaks, so I’m sharing the videos here because they’re amusing. I leave these as open to the public because it gives you a feel for what the class breaks are like, and the quality of the audio & video of…

Remember “Nothing Stops a Hekaton Transaction?” Yeah, About That.

Last Updated July 29, 2020

Brent Ozar

In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)

When In-Memory OLTP first came out, Microsoft liked to go around bragging at conferences that “Nothing stops a Hekaton transaction.” I remember hearing that and kinda chuckling at the time, and I was reminded of it by a recent client who was running into blocking issues with…yep, Hekaton. To reproduce it: Do a large insert…

Private Online Training (Days)

Last Updated March 19, 2021

Brent Ozar

Your team has been reading my blog, watching my free public streams, and using the First Responder Kit scripts for years. They’ve gone as far as they can go on their own, learning from Google, and now they’re ready for the next level. I can bring the conference to you – except way better than a…

How Doug Lowing Gets the Most Out of His Live Class Season Pass

Last Updated June 18, 2020

Brent Ozar

Conferences and Classes

With my Live Class Season Pass, students have the ability to attend as many of my live online classes as they want for an entire year straight, plus they can view the instant replay recordings whenever they want. Doug Lowing, one of the students, shared with me how he gets the most out of his:…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Spring 2020

Last Updated June 1, 2020

Brent Ozar

SQL Server Population Report, Videos

Ever wonder what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates, hardware sizes, or numbers of databases? Let’s find out in the spring 2020 version of our population report. Our SQL ConstantCare® service lets users send data in about their SQL Servers and get health & performance advice via email. Users can opt in to…

How I Use OBS for Streaming and Training Classes

Last Updated October 29, 2020

Brent Ozar

Home Office, Streaming

I’ve written a lot about the hardware & gear I use for streaming, and now let’s talk about the software side. There are a few thousand words in here. Don’t think that you have to tackle all of this just to get started streaming, dear reader. I’ve been working on my streaming setup for months…

Free Webcast on Dynamic SQL Pro Tips

Last Updated May 1, 2020

Brent Ozar

GroupBy Conference, T-SQL

Dynamic SQL is one of the most powerful tools in the database developer’s arsenal. When you need a complex search stored procedure that takes all kinds of parameters (price, category, location, color), dynamic SQL can run extremely quickly by leveraging better indexes. However, when done wrong, it’s extremely painful to troubleshoot. I’ve been working with…

Live Class Season Pass PLUS Lab VM

Last Updated March 19, 2021

Brent Ozar

Season passes are great for people who want to cram in a lot of learning, all year long. You get access to all of my live online classes for one year from your date of purchase, including: Fundamentals of Index Tuning – 1 day, normally $195 Fundamentals of Query Tuning – 1 day, normally $195…

Want SQL Server Training? Copy/Paste This Email To Your Boss.

Last Updated April 7, 2020

Brent Ozar

Company News, Conferences and Classes

Well, that escalated quickly, huh? Just a few short months ago, we were all making plans about what we wanted to learn in 2020. We sketched out our goals, our conference plans, maybe even how we wanted to do our first user group presentations or SQL Saturday presentations. These days: The events you wanted to…

“Working” From Home? Watch A Bunch of Free SQL Server Videos on YouTube.

Last Updated March 13, 2020

Brent Ozar

Videos

You’re new at this working from home thing, and you’re trying to put Game of Thrones up on a second monitor while you work? Listen, that’s not gonna play out well. You’re gonna get distracted and you’re not gonna get any work done. Instead, if you’re gonna have something in the background, learn about SQL…

SQL ConstantCare® Population Report: Winter 2020

Last Updated May 30, 2020

Brent Ozar

SQL Server Population Report

Ever wonder what’s “normal” out there for SQL Server adoption rates, hardware sizes, or numbers of databases? Let’s find out. Our SQL ConstantCare® service lets users send data in about their SQL Servers and get health & performance advice via email. Users can opt in to share their anonymized data to get better recommendations overall.…

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